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Bhushany Kalyanaraman Live concert in Germany

by: Media Department of University Lüneburg

Publication date: 2002-05-27

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Topics: Carnatic vocal, South Indian music, live recital

Item Size: 118.7M

Complete live recording of a classical South Indian (Carnatic) vocal recital by Bhushany Kalyanaraman

Items

1. Mangalavara Ganapate (Varnam)

Raga: Hamsadhvani; Tala: Adi; Composer: Tanjavoor S. Kalyanaraman

2. Sogasuga Mridanga Talamu (Kriti)

Raga: Sriranjani; Tala: Rupakam; Composer: Tyagaraja

3.TayeTripura Sundari (Kriti)

Raga: Suddhasaveri; Tala: Khanda Chapu; Composer: Periyaswami Tooran

4. Minakshi Memudam (Kriti)

Raga: Purvikalyani (= Gamagakriya); Tala: Adi; Composer: Muttusvami Dikshitar

5. Shobhillu Saptasvara (Kriti)

Raga: Jaganmohini; Tala: Rupakam; Composer: Tyagaraja

6. Ninne Nammiti (Kriti)

Raga: Simhendramadhyamam; Tala: Misra Chapu; Composer: Mysore Vasudevachar 7. Raga Tanam Pallavi

Raga: Sankarabharanam and Ragamalika; Tala: KhandaTriputa

8. Bhavayami Gopalabala Sevitam (Padam)

Raga: Yamunakalyani; Tala: Khanda Chapu Composer: Annamacharya;

9.Tillana

Raga: Brindavani; Tala: Adi; Composer: Tanjavoor S. Kalyanaraman

10. Ni Nama Rupamulaku (Mangalam)

Raga: Saurashtram; Tala: Adi; Composer: Tyagaraja

(followed by Madhyamavati raga)

Credits

Organized and recorded by the Media Department of University Lüneburg for students of the distance education course The Music of South India

www.carnaticstudent.org

Performers

Bhushany Kalyanaraman - Vocal

Pakala Ramadas - Violin

T. R. Sundaresan - Mridangam, Kanjira, Morsing and Konnakkol

Katharina Bunzel - Tambura

Place and date

Hitzacker (Germany), 27 May 2002

About the main performer

SINGLE-MINDED devotion to Carnatic music — that sums up Bhushany Kalyanaraman. Hers is an extraordinary tale, spanning oceans. Born and brought up in Colombo, Sri Lanka, it was a typical Tamil household where her father used to ensure that everyone was awake at 5 a.m., reciting the Tiruvempavai. A renowned musician, her father had won the title "Sangita Bhushanam" from Annamalai University. All her sisters too sang well.

Love of Carnatic music brought Bhushany to Chennai, at 16,to stay and study music at the Government Music College. She went back to Sri Lanka, to teach music at a Jaffna college. The riots in 1982 brought her back to India, drawn by her deep admiration for her subsequent guru and husband, Tanjore S.Kalyanaraman, senior disciple of the legendary G.N.B. [...]

A senior vocalist today, Bhushany has number of students both here and abroad, and many foreign students of Indian origin, who come to live with and learn from her. Many of her foreign-based students have had their formal arangetrams, proving her success as a teacher. [...]

Grateful for everything that music has bestowed on her, she also wishes to do something for destitute women and children "to be able to reach out to people who do not have the luxury of music, people weighed down by pressing basic needs, to survive." [...]

Bhushany is a fortunate person — she has the best of both Sri Lanka and India, the best gained by besting life's many odds

Source: Rupa Gopal in The Hindu (print edition), 7 March 2004 profiling "women who have made a career out of their passion"